Rideriana amazonica, Grazia & Frey-da-Silva, 2003

Grazia, Jocélia & Frey-da-Silva, Angélica, 2003, Rideriana amazonica gen. nov. and sp. nov. of Pentatomini (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae), Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 20 (3), pp. 507-510 : 508-510

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1590/S0101-81752003000300023

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F187C4-2249-FF9C-FC7A-1429FF51FE47

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Carolina

scientific name

Rideriana amazonica
status

sp. nov.

Rideriana amazonica sp. nov.

Figs 1-8 View Figure 1 View Figures 2-8

Male ( Fig. 1 View Figure 1 ). Body length 15.42 (15.20-15.70); head length 2.37 (2.32-2.48), head width 3.09 (3.04-3.12); length before eyes 1.46 (1.44-1.52); width between eyes 1.81 (1.76- 1.84); pronotal length 3.57 (3.44-3.68), pronotal width 8.56 (8.40-8.80); scutellar length 6.68 (6.64-6.72), scutellar width 5.44; corium length 8.93 (8.48-9.20); length of antennal segments: I 1.20 (1.12-1.28); II 0.42 (0.40-0.48); III 3.76 (3.68- 3.84); IV 3.84; V 4.04 (3.92-4.16).

Dorsal surface of body castaneous to yellowish-castaneous, densely punctured; punctures dark-castaneous. Ventral surface yellowish with scattered ferrugineous to black punctures, bigger than dorsal punctures of thorax. Lateral margins of jugae finely black bordered. Antennal segments II, III and IV reddish-castaneous; segment I mate, densely punctured; segment V yellowish, punctures faded.

Pronotum cicatrices inconspicuous. Mesosternal carina yellowish; metasternal carina reddish, black punctured. Evaporatory areas yellowish. Legs mate, with castaneous maculae; tarsi reddish, immaculate. Spiracles black sided entad by yellowish callus.

Genitalia. Hypandrium (hy) strongly developed, longer than the pygophore, along mid line bifurcated, each ramus laterally flat, apex digitiform ( Figs 2-4 View Figures 2-8 ). Parameres geniculate, apex turned to the bottom of genital cup ( Fig. 5 View Figures 2-8 ). Phallus. Vesica well-developed; apical half turned ventrad, with a pair of processes, one basal – processus vesicae 1 (prv1) more sclerotized, longer, ventrally directed, and one apical – processus vesicae 2 (prv2) membranous, shorter, posteroventrally directed. Ductus seminis distalis very long, almost twice the length of vesica, emerging from its base, projecting ventrad and folding dorsad, the apical fifth directed posteriorly ( Figs 6-8 View Figures 2-8 ).

Female unknown.

Type material. Holotype male: PERU, Cuzco: Prov. Paucartambo, Hacienda Maria, Shores of River Cosnipata , 15.III.1952, F. Woytkowski leg., J.C. Lutz Collection 1961 ( USNM ). Paratypes: BRAZIL, Acre: 11 Km Ne do Rio Branco, 06.V.1981, Jorge Arias leg., 1 male ( INPA). BOLIVIA, La Paz: Mapiri (N. La Paz), 10-16.VIII.1989, L.E. Peña leg., Coll. Drake, 1 male ( USNM).

USNM

USA, Washington D.C., National Museum of Natural History, [formerly, United States National Museum]

INPA

Brazil, Amazonas, Manaus, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazoonia, Colecao Sistematica da Entomologia

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Pentatomidae

Genus

Rideriana

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